skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the voice understandable Japanese?
I second that. I replaced a bunch of wall switches with Leviton WiFi smart ones and would never go WiFi again. They're totally unreliable. My Meross smart plugs fair a little better but still lose connectivity now and then (got a bit better with updates).
Is there anyone else who doesn't support either side of this conflict? They've been fighting each other for over 100 years. They both want the same piece of land. It's on them to figure it out. People around the world don't need to 'pick a side'. We can protest for both sides to sort their shit out, and not drag the rest of us into it.
Composting converts waste into resource (in economic terms, a bad into a good). Human urine is very useful for fertilizer. Figuring out how to leverage that would be one of many pieces to be "sustainable".
Intelligence is largely hereditary (people's intelligence is generally unlikely to be significantly higher or lower than that of their parents).

So if the parents were high quality academic students, there's a far higher than average likelihood that the same will be true of their children.

(The same is true for athleticism, and no-one would be surprised or think it was unreasonable that LeBron's son was offered scholarships just for who his father is.)
The fact we’ve basically eliminated fatality rates to kids under 5 is the the actual thing they’re trying to say. That kids survive at a rate in many places globally that is not sustainable to those places. Meanwhile we are told that we should limit how many kids, if any, we should have.
Having spent entire days moderating previous threads on this topic, I know what kind of conversation we're likely to get. But abandoning discussion altogether is also not an option.

> I don't understand why you even want this topic on HackerNews.

I don't think I'd say 'want' (what I want is to spend Sunday afternoons working on something else), but the issue is the principles by which we moderate the site. If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267862 (edit: which I just posted in the current thread) and then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618973 and the links back from there, you should find plenty of explanation of the relevant points. If you (or anyone) want to familiarize yourself with those answers and still have a question I haven't addressed, I'd be happy to try.
The sooner we realise that DEI is making us head towards a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron situation, the better off everyone will be.
You're missing out on lots of amazing people who treat programming as work and have other hobbies. Or people in temporarily different situations (like young kids). Or people with more important things happening in their life. You're effectively filtering for mostly people in their 20s.

I mean, it's your choice, but your loss too.
I'm using it on two outlets after not having enough prescience to install ethernet in my wardrobe-turned-office - got any reading materials?
I've recently visited my parents in europe. I have no affiliations with Israel or Jews. My parents watched a local Al-Jazeera channel in their mother tongue since Qatar seems to strategically deploy satellite offices of Al-Jazeera in different countries, even european. Boy was i shocked at the level
of propaganda from this channel. Basically all day in big letters "genocide in gaza" with anti-jewish paroles. I can understand why Israel decides to close down such a channel.
Any regime that seeks to suppress the media can't be up to any good, IMO.
Dataflare: Cross-Platform Database Browser
I’m not sure about “dark day for the media” but it does feel like a dark day for Israel.

Once you’ve established that the government can unilaterally ban a voice for reasons of “national security” you’ve essentially given them a free pass. As Americans living post-9/11 will know, “national security” is a deliberately elastic term that can cover anything required in the moment.
The uselessness of professional certifications isn't because things move too fast. The fundamentals don't really change.

The certifications are useless because they're paper mills, driven by the same incentives as grade inflation. People get upset if they pay for the certification and then fail the test -- and those are the certification mill's customers, so that can't be allowed or people would get some other certification. Or worse, some other vendor's certification. So they make something easy enough for the 10th percentile to pass, or publish a study guide that effectively gives you the answers to the test, and then it isn't serving as a useful filtering mechanism.

Meanwhile the strongest applicants rightfully see it as a waste of money because they can get in on their other qualifications or find a job through their networks, or use not having it as a reverse filter to eliminate excessively bureaucratic employers that use it as a prerequisite, causing anyone who requires it to be filtering out more of the best applicants than the worst ones.
Added fluoride is done at safe levels. But some natural water sources have TOO MuCH fluoride which is unsafe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_toxicity#Bones
i've just bought a cheap esp32 with a light sensor connected to it. then connected light sensor (ie bluetac) to my electicity meter that pulses every 1/1000 1KW/Hr, it uploads the data to google sheets which graphs the output - works great

I also have another esp32 at my elderly relatives house with a pir sensor connected to it, it's also sending the movement data to a different sheet on the google sheets site, so that i can monitor some sort of movement.

i'm i expecting google to discontinue this service at anytime - yes, but its working for now. you can write and read data from the google sheets via json via the esp32, not very inutitive but doable (and free!!)
Thinking Is Bad: Implications of Human Error Research for Spreadsheet Practice
Just to reiterate what other people have said, no! There are extremely few cases residential wind makes sense. Maybe in some cases where geometry of buildings allows for an effective wind sweep much greater. But otherwise, winds aren't windy enough at building level.
It’s fair to say that the CTO’s job is to make sure Microsoft never misses a trend. Their number one existential threat is a new tech trend that makes their existing model fail. Whether that thing is the rise of smart phones or generative AI, Kevin Scott’s job is to give early warning.
Opendtu solar plant - care to elaborate?
If you can't train the model, you don't really have control over a product based on it.
I think freedom of press is of some significance on a site using news sources as content.
The tool doesn't actually calculate the measurements. It just specifies the grid, and then extracts whatever the browser calculated as the width/height, rounding the numbers for displaying them nicely.

The scale is there just to make things look nice in the browser and/or in print format, and it can slightly corrupt the numbers as you noticed, especially when it's a small or odd scale (try setting it to 1 and watch it break horribly). I guess a few ways to get rid of the scale would be to introduce variable font sizes, make text not be counted for sizing the boxes, or automatically finding the "right" scale number with code. But like I said in the post:

> I guess making it more “serious” would have been possible, but in this case I just wanted to get my furniture designed fast, and keeping the code simple and small helped in that.

See: https://github.com/alnvdl/squareplanner/blob/01bdcb050ce58a4...

I also got these designs printed to follow during the construction, so I just picked scale numbers arbitrarily in a way that made them look good in the browser and fit in the paper size. So "portability" and pleasing visuals were more important than accuracy.

And of course, I could cheat like that because in my particular case any imprecisions got flagged by the real 3D CAD used by the furniture company to formalize the project :)
If the issue is only that YT might push AI-generated content into search then all you need is playlists / bookmarks.

But I generally agree that if you really want access to something in the long term, you should back it up yourself.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. If a user requests a company to stop using their data, ML unlearning allows the company to do so without retraining their models from scratch.
All it took was vision and a tool.
It is not a misdirection. It is headquartered in Qatar and is funded by the government. There is no conflation there. Qatar is not free, journalists operating in Qatar are not free, end of story. You can't operate free press based and funded by a country that is not free and suppressed/intimidates/controls the press.
the riding i do is mainly portuguese, working equitation and related classical stuff. Iberian horsemanship is formed and preserved in mounted bullfighting, which itself is ancient. The riding is the art in a ritual that dignifies the nature of the animal and the participants. Lisbon is older than Rome, they say, and this is why I'd say european horsemandship via bullfighting does not have an islamic origin. There are apparently references to fighting aurochs and the ritual of the corrida is so old the hebrew aleph symbol is apparently a reference to them, it's a deep history.
Users have a wide range of conflicting views about what HN does or doesn't have to do with. You can see that vividly in these past examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which go back many years but sound like they were posted last week.

HN's moderation approach is (a) most political stories are off topic (this is at the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for a reason), but a certain amount of political overlap is (b) inevitable—we learned that the hard way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251, and (c) in keeping with HN's organizing principle of intellectual curiosity.

Those are the principles, and they've been stable for a long time. Then there's which stories get to count as clearing the bar. That is also contentious, but a different question: it's about how to apply the principles, not what the principles should be.

We look for stories that contain significant new information [1], aren't too repetitive of recent discussion [2, 3], and have at least some chance of providing a foundation for intellectually curious conversation.

If you want to understand HN moderation, you need to understand the difference between those two questions—what the principles are vs. how to apply them in specific cases. It's the difference between the rules of a game and the calls made by refs on specific occasions.

The rules are stable and we're confident that they're right. Particular calls, not so much—we sometimes get them wrong. We're often willing to make adjustments in specific cases, especially when users persuade us that we got something wrong. But we're much less willing to change the rules themselves, because they've held up well over many years, and provide a good basis for running HN for its intended purpose [4].

As you can imagine, this question shows up often—especially on divisive topics like the OP—and I've written different versions of this answer many times. You can find a bunch of past explanations from threads about the current topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618973. If you, or anyone, still have questions after reading the current post, I suggest looking at that link (and the links back from there). If after that you still have a question I haven't answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Somewhat off-topic, but has anyone tried training a random forest at LLM scale? Like an RF with millions of trees and billions of branches? My intuition says it could be much more efficient on CPUs, provided it works at all.
I programmed Nokias back then.

The technical talent of their R&D was top notch, and it was sadly wasted by a dysfunctional decision making culture.

People here on the HN tend to value engineers highly and look with disdain on mere managers. They may be right when it comes to the Pointy-Haired Bosses, but good management is a large force multiplier when it comes to the capabilities of any org. And bad management will easily drag a good engineering corps into an endless mire of meaningless work.
It's been common though not exclusive practice to not use apostrophes in street names for a very long time in the south of England, is Yorkshire just catching up?
How much precedent is there for this? Are there parallels for other countries? Does the US prohibit any news agencies from operating in our borders? Does Europe? Does Russia? Does China?

I presume North Korea does, but I don't actually know. These aren't designed to be leading questions. I don't know the answers, and rather than searching, I figured someone else here might know offhand.
> YAML as executable code

Why must we do these things to ourselves?
I am reminded of this any time I watch a video by Michael MJD and see the Eddie "Reliable" Trustman bobblehead on his table.

https://live.staticflickr.com/2039/2242295569_be6f6439f6_b.j...
at least over there something would probably "isle of pen" rather than "pen island"
Personally, what I got from his story is that the management is out of touch with the technology. The only real concern I would have with meaningful identifiers, is that the public gets to decipher what the underlying data is, or aspects about the data. It’s just a privacy question. Your Trading privacy for the ability to avoid bottlenecks like reading a hard drive. As far as the management going, well, you can simply add additional indexes to that same id or data. It’s really not a big deal.
Well said. Tesla seems to struggle with things that other manufacturers find easy. The Model T had three floor pedals. The Cybertruck only has two.
Am I nuts, or does the first graph show exactly the opposite of his claim? He says it shows declining productivity, but labor productivity rises. Costs also rise but this is exactly what one should expect from labor-saving devices, no?
I was honestly shocked at just how much compute you get for very little money on enterprise surplus servers. $150 on eBay for a dell R620, two 16-core Xeons and 64GB of RAM.

Sure it's dated, but I still daily drive a quad core thinkpad from 2013, I'm not bothered. It's got more power than any machine I've owned up to this point. I don't have any use for more power, this guy is usually around 15% utilization. And someone just threw it away. Incredible.
Ask HN: Do startups building on OpenAI have a defensible moat?
Last year I was reviewing about a dozen answers to the questions we were sending candidates to complete at home. In all cases those a*holes used ChatGPT to write answers and what did ChatGPT use? Original Python docs recombined with blog posts. I was able to verify this by copying passages from their answers and pasting them into Google. When I showed this to the hiring manager they had a serious conversation with the agency. It would have been hilarious if I did not know that some of the candidate were real people with good experience but too lazy to write simple code.
Obviously I'm not in academia, but to most outsiders this is really obvious stuff.

That's my point. To outsiders like you and me, these things may seem obviously desirable.

But academics respond to incentives. Imagine you've spent 10 years pushing some set of conclusions based on some shaky studies you did early in your career. Do you really want people to dig deep and challenge the validity of your research?
Let weeds grow in your yard. Cut it high -- ~3+ inches. It'll still be green if you're in a temperate climate (probably greener than your neighbors). Birds and bugs both love a more natural lawn.
Edge cases do not negate the whole point. For example, I'm pretty sure you can find a billionaire who's very cash-poor, i.e., wealth is locked up in the value of a private company. Does not change the fact that anyone with $1 billion+ of net worth is ultra-rich.

Whatever the edge case may be, anyone with $1 million+ annual income and $10 million+ in assets is undeniably upper-class, including your hypothetical farmer. Note that I never claimed their assets should be taken...just stating an objective definition for upper class.
I think the comment already answers this.
Yeah, I'm totally with you. At this point it's like the Hatfields and the McCoys. I don't care what was the last thing the other guy did - he did it to get back at you for the second to last thing you did.

On the other hand, killing children is always wrong. Fucking stop it.
On the other extreme, Are media that spread misinformation without any due process are just protected indefinitely?

Like in this very recent case: https://honestreporting.com/damage-done-how-al-jazeeras-fake...

Edit: haaretz link: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-0...
I thought this was going to be a python thing that exploited functions returning functions with their lexical scope. I find too many syntactical macros tends to encourage excessively dense code. Tho I usually use packer and terraform to configure my end VMs not ansible. A PR to either packer repo or territory repo and push the button to recreate the resources.
Not everyone has such regulation. There’s a problem with fluoride toxicity in India for example.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33721314
DEI is a strange issue in that nearly everybody agrees that it's a good target to aim for yet any action taken to get there is discrimination.

I frankly see it as a cheap shortcut that some very privileged people want to take to try to wash away the sins of our racist past, not to help people, but to make ourselves feel better- or attempt to.
I also like their products very much. I installed a few of them in my sockets. Some people argue that it's not safe to put in your sockets walls and the 16A limit is realistically lower before they can overheat and cause fire. That scared me a little bit but I think most of the reports are from bad wiring like using thin wires or not tightening the clamps enough
Personally, I appreciate the transcript. I don’t enjoy listening to podcasts so having access to the info without having to force myself to listen is nice.
Where is a good overview of the various ESP32 chips available and their features?
Jack Dorsey is no longer on Bluesky's board
Tic toc was recently banned in US.
Having had used traefik, caddy and now caddy proxy, I like the latter because labels are simple pointers to actual caddy features (reasonably documented).

I used to have all my docker compose files in elaborate structures but moved to portainer for simplicity. Together with caddy proxy it rocks (well, there are several things missing but I have hope)
Related:

Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut down channel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40266122
> To allay any concerns: this is not about running JavaScript software to control an actual aircraft. That would kill people.

SpaceX: Hold my beer (https://os-system.com/blog/javascript-in-space-spacex-devs-h...)
My experience: at check-in, Southwest assigns the lowest available boarding pass number. Cancellations, flight changes, and upgrades can each open up lower positions after higher have been assigned.
I'd say quite a lot of people are not particularly invested in any "side" but are repulsed by obvious war crimes.

What makes this situation uniquely toxic is how America and most of its allies vehemently insist on total impunity for the crimes of one side.
> Restricting access based on protected characteristics

What about when you turn that on its head?

"Promoting access based on ..."

If you assume a finite set of places to access then the approaches are equivalent, but for the the emphasis

I think it matters (I am unsure DEI is the solution) that people can access professional services supplied by professionals from a similar cultural background to themselves

In Aotearoa we have mechanisms to encourage Māori applicants to law and medical school for exactly this reason, and it seems to have been both hugely successful and extremely triggering.
Blame the poor computer science education of most people nowadays (could be self-taught or university).

Discovering that code is data and data is code is discovering the moon.
And inferring that your sad configuration management system based on an ugly data language is kind of related to Lisp must be mind blowing.
Also bonus fact, XML is a lisp too !

Actually maybe we could have written ansible in lisp directly to save us the trouble.
Milk Has Lost Its Magic: The bird-flu panic is getting out of hand
Did they wait for the world press freedom index to get published before doing this to artificially inflate their position on this year's list (it's published on world press freedom day, may 3rd annually) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index
You’re assuming what results in a promotion is the same as what’s worth a promotion. Nepotism makes it really easy to convince someone to promote you, but it doesn’t mean someone else doing the same thing would get a promotion.
> how the heck does a 3 mirror setup make sense? Can't a single mirror always accomplish the same goal?

Easier to make three smaller mirrors than one big one.

> why mirrors, with their blind spot where the sensor is, instead of lenses?

"Mirrors don't cause chromatic aberration and they are easier and cheaper to build large. They are also easier to mount because the back of the mirror can be used to attach to the mount" [1]. (And there are off-axis designs that avoid obstructing the incoming light.)

[1] https://lco.global/spacebook/telescopes/reflecting-telescope...
How is this possible in a democratic country?
> By using DEI as a metric you end up doing the complete opposite of “optimal use of everyone's talent, irrespective of their colour, sex and/or identify…”

That is a puzzling statement. Why is it true?
What do you mean "demanding support" ? I remember Home Assistant authors being actively hostile to people packaging their software outside of the official Docker or RPi images. Which is why it wasn't in the Debian repository, pushing me down that Docker path in the first place. Here's the same dynamic on an associated project in 2021: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

If anyone chimes in and says they've been running Home Assistant from nixpkgs (where I am now) for several years with no hiccups, then I will certainly reconsider my opinion. But based on my experience and what I've continued to read since, it feels like trying to do that is an uphill battle. One I'm not looking to take on, especially for automation I'm relying on.
Tik Tok isn't a news agency
Because people who fought one oppressor, might fight the next one. Even if the oppressors were enemies at some point.
So you are saying you can’t operate a free press in Israel?
In [1] there's:

> Like other recent live-action remakes—such as The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Snow White—some users accused the studio of "going woke" by modernizing the original story.

> They'll make the hunter an evil White man, Bambi's mom will be a message about incel rage and Bambi will also be black," wrote @NintendoFan729.

That's this Tweet: https://twitter.com/NintendoFan729/status/170756134256606837... – 5 likes, 641 views. From some random anonymous account with 322 followers and an average of about 5 tweets per day.

Yet here it is, cited in a major magazine, as evidence of ... something or the other.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/disney-modernized-bambi-remake-spar...
Not exactly the same, but rt.com is banned in the EU. However, I don't know how effective it is, since I can still visit it.
Honest Reporting is an Israeli media advocacy group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HonestReporting